Africa

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Africa is experiencing the world’s fastest rate of urbanisation, with rapid growth in middle class populations in sub-Saharan cities driving demand for quality products and a modern shopping experience. While uncertainty and volatility have clouded the near term investment outlook for Africa, astute real estate investors with a longer term perspective recognise the continent’s potential based on positive demographics, urbanisation and growing personal incomes. The continent’s challenges have tended…

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Every city official knows that if you’re not running a global capital city, you’re going to have to work twice as hard to attract business investment. Being a second or third city might seem to be a handicap but it forces you to innovate, which can only be a good thing. Innovation doesn’t have to be difficult, though. Most city officials are looking for an epiphany that will bring…

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – In 2015 the latest of the biannual reports by Hotel Partners Africa outlined the huge opportunity that was available for hotel investors in sub-Saharan Africa, echoing many earlier reports by a whole series of academic and professional luminaries. Everyone knows about Africa’s potential, created by the population explosion, the demographic profile of the population and the commodities “lottery win”. However, the shortage of hotel bedrooms provides one of the…